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Описание: Lake identification? It really is that color. www.flickr.com/photos/35592860@N08/12737277705/ I'm wondering if the block in the bottom center of the frame is the old location of the locomotive bell. From: www.hikinginglacier.com/piegan-pass.htm "Piegan Pass has the distinction of being one of four sites in Glacier to have had a locomotive bell installed on it. In 1925, W. R. Mills, an advertising agent with the Great Northern Railway, and H. A. Noble, manager of the Glacier Park Hotel Company, requested permission from the park to place locomotive bells on the summits of several passes in Glacier. According to Donald H. Robinson's Administrative History of Glacier National Park, the request was based on the old Swiss custom of placing bells on mountain tops and passes to allow hikers or horseback riders the unusual experience of ringing loud bells high in the mountains, as well as to let people in the valleys know that they had reached their destination. In September of 1926 the request was finally granted to place bells at Swiftcurrent Pass, Piegan Pass and Siyeh Pass. Three years later a fourth bell was added at Scenic Point in Two Medicine. The bells remained in place until the fall of 1943, when they were removed by the hotel company and donated to a World War II scrap metal drive. Today, the stone platform that supported the bell still stands atop Piegan Pass. Just as you reach the eastern side of the saddle, look towards the right to see the platform standing several feet above the trail. Additionally, a little further towards the summit of the pass, you may also notice a pile of rocks that looks a little out of place. If you look a little closer you may notice several scraps of metal and a foundation. This appears to be the ruins of some type of hut, though I haven't found any information that pinpoints to exactly what this was used for."

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